Black and White New Year’s Eve Party Ideas

Need a fun theme for this year’s New Year’s Eve party? Try a black and white party filled with black and white treats, black and white party games, and even some awesome black and white New Year’s Eve party decorations! This guide will give you everything you need to host one incredible black and white New Year’s Eve!

Black and White Party Ideas

There is only one rule when it comes to hosting a black and white party – it needs to be black and white including the dress code! We did a black and white party with our friends a few years ago and this year are doing it again for New Year’s Eve.

A black and white party makes the perfect party theme for a game night, a dinner party with friends, or this case a New Year’s Eve Party. It actually works perfect for New Year’s Eve because black and white tends to lean itself to a more adult and sophisticated vibe, although you could easily do all of these things with kids as well!

In addition to the candy, I just grabbed a couple of other desserts – Oreos, black and white cookies (of course), a white cake decorated with black sprinkles and Sixlets, chocolate and white powdered donuts, and Devil’s Food Cupcakes with white frosting. Who knew black and white food could be so sweet?

While I did a dessert table, you could also go the more savory route with some of these instead:

Olive and mozzarella cheese crostinis

Sushi rolls

Popcorn with black sprinkles

Blackberries with a cream cheese drizzle

White tortilla chips with black bean dip

Black bean soup with crumbled white cheese

Black eyed peas with forbidden rice (the black eyed peas are great for New Year’s Eve)

Black and White New Year’s Eve Games & Activities

Black and White Printable Games

The beauty of the black and white theme is that it’s so easy to make any printable games fit the theme – simply print out games like these New Year’s Eve trivia games in black and white and voila, you have a themed game! Here’s an entire collection of New Year’s Eve games that you could just print out in black and white.

Luckily black and white is a pretty popular color combo so finding black and white gifts should be a breeze. If you can’t come up with anything, a pack of Oreos with a gift card taped to the bottom if a good failsafe option.

Black and White New Year’s Eve Name that Tune

Name that tune is one of my all-time favorite games to play at parties. You split the team in two, play a short clip of a song, and see which team can guess the song first. One point for the song title and one point for the artist. Detailed instructions for playing name that tune can be found here.

For a black and white New Year’s Eve party, there are two different ways you could play this one. You could either do a list of songs that have the word black or white in the title or just do a playlist of the top songs from the year. You can get the black and white playlist below here or get my New Year’s Eve name that tune playlist here.

Black and White Reverse Charades

Another one of my favorite party games is reverse charades, and I love it because you really can make it fit any theme. The general idea is that instead of in traditional charades where one person is acting something out while the team guesses, in reverse charades, one person guesses while the entire team works together to act out their item. It’s one of the funniest games I’ve ever seen.

I put together a list of black and white words that would work well for this that you can get by clicking the big pink button below. You could also put together a list of hot terms from the past year and have people act those out as well! Those may be a bit harder to guess, but it would be hilarious to watch someone act out say the battle scene between Thor and Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok, one of this year’s top movies.

Get the full instructions here and a printable list of black and white charades cards here. Here’s a little sampling of the list.

Shaun White (Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding)

Baa Baa Black Sheep

White Men Can’t Jump (movie)

White blood cells

White and Nerdy (Weird Al song)

Ebony and Ivory

Albino

Crossword

Panda Bear

Black Hills of South Dakota

Get the Printable Song & Charade Card List

Enter your first name and email address in the form below to get the free printable black and white game cards and song list. If you can’t see the form, click here to get to it.

Face the Cookie

One of my favorite minute to win it games is face the cookie. Since Oreos are black and white, this is a hilarious game that works perfectly with the theme. Give everyone a cookie and see who can get it from their forehead to their mouth first without their hands! You could try any of these other New Year’s Eve minute to win it games as well.

Get the Printable Song & Charade Card List

Enter your first name and email address in the form below to get the free printable black and white game cards and song list. If you can’t see the form, click here to get to it.

A Black and White New Year’s Eve Photo Booth

No need to setup an elaborate photo booth for the party. Simply purchase one or two sets of these awesome black cardboard frames from Shindigz and set them up with hats, noisemakers, and leis from this black and white New Year’s Eve party kit to create an impromptu photo booth. And instead of doing color photos, have a printer setup to print out black and white photos.

Could there be any better party favor for a black and white party than a black and white photo?

What’s your favorite part of this black and white New Year’s Eve Party?

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